Yes both harddrives show up correctly in Bios. Using windows XP operating system. The new HD is a WD Sata 300. If i place the new HD in slot 0 and the orig in slot1 windows setup does not see the slot1 HD either so it does not seem to be anything specific to a HD. Like i said, on the Dell forums i was told that SATA HD's can only be recognized by XP if they are in slot 0, you can use them to store data in the other 4 slots but to load XP it has to be in slot 0. Is that a correct statement? What would the purpose of that be?
I am building a new system and will that will have 2 separte SATA hard
drives. I want to do s dual boot one w/vista and the other with xp. I will be starting from scatch meaning i will be doing clean installs.
can anyone tell me what to? I saw things on this forum similar to i am trying to do but not specific to what i need. I need help on what to do and can this be done?

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